Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, Owner Perini stole off to St. Louis, and quietly swung baseball's biggest deal in four years: for one mediocre pitcher and an estimated $50,000 in cash, he bought the Cardinals' temperamental fork-bailer Morton Cooper (his seven-year big-league record: 106 won, 60 lost). That ended Cooper's six-week salary squabble with the penny-pinching Cardinals, and it might even boost the Braves into the first division for the first time in eleven years...
...jazz and boogie, between bright red and yellow album covers, have stolen the record show this spring. Victor has issued six jazz albums (priced higher than its standard Red Seal records) ranging from old New Orleans Pioneer "Jelly Roll" Morton through contemporary Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton. Columbia has reissued an 18-album series featuring Louis...
...Morton C. Kahn, William Celestin and William Offenhauser, casting about for new ways to destroy mosquitoes that might be safer and cheaper than insecticides, hit on the idea of luring them into traps. The first step was to find out whether mosquitoes are able to communicate with each other...
...WOUNDED TENNIS PLAYER-Morton Thompson-Doubleday, Doran ($2). Wacky autobiographical musings by ex-columnist (now Staff Sergeant) Thompson-about his mother, his career, and his little brother who talked confidentially with horses...
...entertainment from home since the first five U.S.O. units waded ashore in Normandy last July and promptly merged into one mammoth revue, practically on the beach. Dozens of other units have jested and jeeped their way around the fronts; such headliners as Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Edward G. Robinson, Morton Downey, Fred Astaire have come & gone...